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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.


Canonical
21 April 2015

Ubuntu 15.04: What’s new for cloud users?

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu 15.04: OpenStack ready to roll with Kilo and first outing of Snappy Core Adds LXD, a new hypervisor with incredible density and speed First release of Snappy Ubuntu Core for cloud container hosts and smart devices OpenStack “Kilo” – Ubuntu leads with choice of SDNs, easy install and management Updated developer tools for cloud ...


Canonical
20 April 2015

Why an AppScale / Canonical Partnership is Important

Cloud and server Article

It’s exciting to be partnering with Canonical / Ubuntu again as a member of their Charm Partner Program. This partnership is more than a simple “logo exchange.” AppScale and Canonical engineers worked closely to create a production-ready Charm that would offer users a full cloud stack (OS through aPaaS) at the click of a button. ...


Canonical
17 April 2015

Tendering with Ubuntu

Desktop Article

Public and private entities across the globe are increasingly turning towards Ubuntu for high performing robust solutions and saving millions in the process! Canonical recognises this growing demand and we are building more tools that will allow these entities to get product pre-loaded by OEMs which is fully enabled and compatible with th ...


Canonical
15 April 2015

PLUMgrid Joins Canonical Ubuntu OpenStack Interoperability Lab

Cloud and server Article

Partnership will deliver validated interoperability with simpler and automated deployment for OpenStack clouds SUNNYVALE, Calif. and LONDON, April 15, 2015 — PLUMgrid, a leading innovator of virtual network infrastructure for OpenStack® clouds, has become an Ubuntu Cloud partner and a part of the Canonical OpenStack Interoperability Lab p ...


Canonical
14 April 2015

Zabbix charms now available

Cloud and server Article

Zabbix is the latest graduate of the Charm Partner Programme, and we are excited to welcome their charms into the Juju Charms collection. Zabbix is is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution designed to monitor and track performance and availability of network servers, devices, services and other IT resources. Zabb ...


Canonical
14 April 2015

Chef and Canonical; an automation story (with a bare metal soundtrack)

Cloud and server News

Every business needs to spend fewer calories on IT management and are looking to automation and cloud-ready platforms to do so. Combining Chef’s scale and flexibility with Ubuntu’s tremendous Linux platform empowers users to easily manage everything from bare metal servers to large-scale clouds. Barry Crist, CEO, Chef Chef and Ubuntu are ...


Canonical
9 April 2015

FortyCloud joins Canonical’s growing Charm Partner Programme

Cloud and server Article

FortyCloud,  a pioneer in network Security ­as ­a ­Service for the cloud, is the most recent member to join Canonical’s growing charm ecosystem. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s cloud orchestration tool, Juju, enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling at the cli ...


Canonical
9 April 2015

Designed for developers – Dell launches two new Ubuntu-based systems

Desktop Article

Ubuntu's strong developer community will be pleased to hear that two new Dell devices targeted at developers are now available in market: the Dell XPS 13 laptop and the Dell Precision M3800 mobile workstation. The Ubuntu-based Dell XPS 13 laptop developer edition is the fourth generation of its series and embodies a host of new ...


Canonical
8 April 2015

Talligent has been Charmed!

Cloud and server Article

John Meadows, VP of Sales and Business Development at Talligent, writes about their motivations and experiences charming OpenBook. Let me start with a brief explanation of why we decided to Charm our application. Canonical is an important player in the Openstack cloud space with a leading distribution of Openstack.  Ubuntu is the most pop ...


Canonical
2 April 2015

Hack The Home: creating the home of the future

Internet of Things Article

Inventors are gathering at the FirstBuild Hackathon to share ideas and shape their vision of intelligent systems in the home and in business. We’re delighted to support this innovation on Snappy Ubuntu Core, the new version of Ubuntu specifically designed for connected devices and appliances. We hope the resulting ideas find fertile groun ...


Canonical
2 April 2015

Ubuntu, ARM and the public cloud

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu has a long history of interest and investment in supporting ARM-based hardware. Since our 10.04 release, Ubuntu has been fully compatible with the ARMv7 architecture, and in 2014 we were the first commercial Linux-based operating system to announce full support for the newly enabled 64-bit ARMv8 architecture. Christian Reis, VP Hyp ...


Canonical
1 April 2015

Internet of Things: M2MLabs

Internet of Things Article

M2MLabs’ 100 % open source framework provides the foundation for building the next generation of Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Snappy Ubuntu Core is the perfect match to build, deploy and run IoT services on all devices and cloud environments. Using Snappy Ubuntu Core enables M2MLabs company to connect applications on its framewo ...